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A Power Solution to Manage and Communicate Messages Campus - Wide

Digital Signage

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David BurkholderØ Manager, Learning and Communication Systems, TRU

Wilson LoØ Senior Programmer Analyst, Information Technology, UBC

Soha MoosaviØ Business Analyst, Shared Systems and Technology, BCNET

Presenters

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Beverage: Introductions

Appetizer: Service Overview

Side Dish: Using CoolSign & Running a Pilot

Main Course: Digital Signage at TRU

Dessert: Q&A

On the Menu Today…

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¡ Launched January 2017

¡ 3 institutions (+2 pilots)

¡ 143 endpoints

¡ Haivision

¡ CoolSign v 5.2

¡ Windows 7, 8.1 and 10

Digital Signage - Service Overview

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Managing Your Digital Signage Network Using CoolSignInteractive

display support

HTML 5 web

content

Multicast live

streaming Mpeg-1, 2, 4

Emergency Broadcasting

AVI

WMV

MP4H.264

MOV

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1. Configure your content’s display characteristics

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Display your Digital Signage Content in 3 Easy Steps Using CoolSign

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2. Add your content to a channel

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3. Assign your channel to a display

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Running a Pilot ProjectWhat You Need

Content creatorSignage administrator

sysadmin

Windows 7, 8.1, 10 Network connection

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Annual CostØ Endpoint maintenance

Ø Server maintenance

Ø Service management

Ø EduCloud

Ø Ongoing support

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Digital Signage – Service Overview - Cost

Example service cost for 10 endpoints (with 4 members)

First Year: ~$26,500Reoccurring: ~$8,600

*displays not included

Example service cost for 10 endpoints (with 6 members)

First Year: ~$22,400Reoccurring: ~$6,800

One- Time CostØ Endpoint license

Ø Server license

Ø Setup/ Training

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¡ The NeedØ Replace an aged / no longer supported system

Ø Emergency notifications to screens from Re-Group

¡ The ChallengeØ Cost and technical support

• standalone (licensing, backend software costs, managing in-house)

vs• hosted (licensing, reduced back end costs and someone else maintain the service).

We don’t have many buildings dedicated to particular Faculties so screens are used for all types of messaging.

Digital Signage at TRU

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¡ IT partnered with TRU Marketing and Communications¡ Project started by replacing and relocating existing 12 signs to high ‘wait state’ areas

One of the goals is to have department/faculties manage the signs in their area and update content regularly alongwith Campus content being updated by MarComThis has been accomplished (some what) by using rss feeds from the TRU web site feed the players/screens

Training¡ UBC visited TRU for demonstration and proof of concept.¡ Once we decided to move forward, Wilson and Jamal from UBC came to TRU and provided training on;

Ø Installation of end-point software and licensing (TRU PC support)

Ø Marketing and Communications on use of the system to feed and display content

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New Uses

Career Education installing screens to replace bulletin boards – 5 locations on Campus ¡ Content managed and updated by department

System has the ability to accept live streaming to the screens, we are planning on using this ability for our June convocation.

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Last Thoughts

Technology piece has been straight forward, the challenge has been resourcing for the updating of the content.

Fresh and relevant content is important!

It’s not the cost of the system, it’s the resources that you put into the content… that’s the key!

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Thank You

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